Zine el Abidine Ben Ali

Hoping for re-election in 2004 are Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Tunisia's Zine el Abidine Ben Ali...

Tunisians have long reacted strongly to Middle East events and President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's regime has allowed public outpourings of anger and frustration where scope for genuine popular expression is otherwise highly constrained...

In Tunisia President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali is planning his own succession after changing the constitution to allow him to stand again in 2004...

In early March Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi separately hosted the Moroccan Prime Minister Abderrahmane el Youssoufi and the head of King Mohammed's office Mohamed Rachdi Chraibi who also met Tunisia's President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali on 11 March...

The Presidents of Algeria Egypt and Tunisia Abdelaziz Bouteflika Hosni Mubarak and Zine el Abidine Ben Ali got an unexpected boost from the atrocities of 11 September...

Tunis sees the events as vindicating President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's hard line on Islamists...

Africa's 'change the constitution' movement has now crept north to Tunisia where the ruling Rassemblement Constitutionnel Démocratique wants to persuade' President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali to stand for re-election in 2004...

Tunisia's President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali will continue to gloat over economic success: more than 5 per cent economic growth strong foreign investment growth and a well educated population which have reduced the birth rate to 1...